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This permit entitles the bearer to one thousand pounds share in the copartnership for carrying on a trade in masts, deals, timber, &amp;c. from Hanover, Bremen, Hamburgh, and other parts in Germany, according to the Act pass’d this session of Parliament, for the encouragement thereof. Enter’d per [blank]. [Blank] secretary

This permit entitles the bearer to one thousand pounds share in the copartnership for carrying on a trade in masts, deals, timber, &amp;c. from Hanover, Bremen, Hamburgh, and other parts in Germany, according to the Act pass’d this session of Parliament, for the encouragement thereof. Enter’d per [blank]. [Blank] secretary

A stock certificate issued during the period of the South Sea Bubble mania. Such certificates were often depicted in contemporary prints as being blown away from the hands of investors by the wind of changing fortune.

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